The powerful and riveting new audiobook in the multimillion-selling Killing series by Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard.
Autumn 1944. World War II is nearly over in Europe but is escalating in the Pacific, where American soldiers face an opponent who will go to any length to avoid defeat. The Japanese army follows the samurai code of Bushido, stipulating that surrender is a form of dishonor.
Killing the Rising Sun takes listeners to the bloody tropical-island battlefields of Peleliu and Iwo Jima and to the embattled Philippines, where General Douglas MacArthur has made a triumphant return and is plotting a full-scale invasion of Japan. Across the globe in Los Alamos, New Mexico, Dr. J. Robert Oppenheimer and his team of scientists are preparing to test the deadliest weapon known to mankind. In Washington, DC, FDR dies in office, and Harry Truman ascends to the presidency only to face the most important political decision in history: whether to use that weapon. And in Tokyo, Emperor Hirohito, who is considered a deity by his subjects, refuses to surrender despite a massive and mounting death toll.
Told in the same pause-resistant style of Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton, and Killing Reagan, this epic saga details the final moments of World War II like never before.
ANOTHER SCORCHER NOT TO BE MISSED! Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan by Fox News host Bill O’Reilly and Martin Dugard is the sixth book in the historical Killing series, following Killing Lincoln, Killing Kennedy, Killing Jesus, Killing Patton and Killing Reagan. The latest instalment is about the Atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki in August 1945. Unlike the earlier titles in the series which focused on the violent death of famous personalities, in this book the authors have shifted their…
WWII in 3D color The text books we read in school were okay, gave us the main events and were, in my opinion, bland and monochromatic. O’Reilly advances the subject to a far higher level with more infinite details and factual accounts of these events through personal profiles and narratives. It is full color, HD and puts YOU in the story like no other textbook could hope to capture.
O’Reilly’s Killing Japanese! First, I should disclose that I’m a political conservative but not necessarily a fan of Bill O’Reilly. Nevertheless I have read several of his “killing book series,” and I have found them invariably superficial in depth but otherwise well-written and interesting — written in accordance with marketing techniques for popular, best selling books. “Killing the Rising Sun: How America Vanquished World War II Japan” is no different, but it’s arguably…